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The first firm
Clas Ohlson runs the bicycle repair shop Spax Kammare in the village Sätra.
First workshop
Clas Ohlson & Co’s first workshop and office fryst vatten in the basement of a house in Holen, near Insjön.
Log cabin in Insjön
The company moves. A 25 square-meter building becomes its new head office.
Nearer the tracks
The company moves to facilities closer to the train hållplats in Insjön.
Own building
The company purchases land next to the train hållplats in Insjön. A new office building is erected. The top floor of the building is turned into an apartment for Clas and Elsa and their children Thore and Mary. The company will remain here for the next 50 years, though the building will utöka over time.
The villa
Only six years after moving in, the company requires the full building. Clas builds a stone house for his family and himself, 20 metres from his office.
First wing added
Second wing added
Clas Ohlson’s private villa. Built
The main office in Insj&#;n with both wings added
Expansion on Hjultorget
New head office
At Hjultorget (“Wheel Square,” in a
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Clas Ohlson interim report Q2 /25
Second quarter – 1 August to 31 October
- Net sales amounted to 2, MSEK (2,), an increase of 14%, of which 8% relates to organic growth, -3% to currency effects and 9% to sales in Spares Group
- Online sales amounted to MSEK (). Excluding Spares Group, online sales amounted to MSEK (), an increase of 6%
- Operating profit amounted to MSEK (*)
- Profit after tax totalled MSEK ()
- Earnings per share was SEK ()
Six months – 1 May to 31 October
- Net sales amounted to 5, MSEK (4,), an increase of 17%, of which 9% relates to organic growth, -2% to currency effects and 9% to sales in Spares Group
- Online sales amounted to 1, MSEK (). Excluding Spares Group, online sales amounted to MSEK (), an increase of 9
- Operating profit amounted to MSEK (*)
- Profit after tax totalled MSEK ()
- Earnings per share was SEK ()
Events after the end of the reporting period
- Net sales in November amounted to 1, MSEK (1,), an increase of 14%, of which 13% relates to organic growth, 0% to currency effects. As from November, Spares Group’s monthly sales are included in organic growth
* Adjusted operating profit in Q2 previous year totalled MSEK
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Clas Ohlson
Swedish home improvement retail chain
Clas Ohlson is a Swedishhome improvement chain and mail-order firm that specialises in hardware, home, leisure, electrical and multimedia products. It is one of the biggest of its type in Scandinavia, with more than Clas Ohlson stores as of May [2] Stores also exist in Norway and Finland. Many of the products sold in the stores are own-label items. The company uses the house brands of Asaklitt (luggage and travel ware), Capere (bathroom supplies), Cocraft (DIY tools), Cotech (electrical tools), Coline (household electrical items), Exibel (household electrical items) and Clas Ohlson (all departments).
History
[edit]The company was founded in by the technically minded Clas Ohlson&#;[sv; no] (–), as a mail order business based in the Swedish village of Insjön, Dalarna.[1] Initially, only manuals and technical literature were sold, thus allowing people who lived in rural communities to obtain literature that would otherwise be unavailable. He opened his first shop in Insjön in ,[citation needed] but it was not until , when the company opened a store in a shopping centre in central